Alcatel-Lucent Signs $460 Million with China Mobile and China Unicom

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator, awarded a master contract valued at US$340 million to Alcatel-Lucent for mobile communications solutions and services. Under the deal, Alcatel-Lucent will provide China Mobile with GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and core network equipment, customized solutions and related services that will support China Mobile's GSM/GPRS/EDGE network expansion programs in 2007. This will enable China Mobile to expand into...

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OIF Launches SFI-X Project for SERDES-Framer Interfaces to 100 Gbps

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has launched a SERDES Framer Interface SFI-X project that will define a scalable interface from an optical module to a framer device for line rates from 40 Gbps to 100 Gbps and beyond. The SFI-X project forms an important contribution to the requirements for transport of high-speed data via the OIF's Common Electrical Interface (CEI). The current, ongoing CEI-25 project establishes electrical signaling rates...

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Samsung Offers 8MB MicroSD Card for Mobiles

Samsung Electronics has developed an 8 GB microSD (Secure Digital) memory card designed for multimedia mobile phones. The new fingernail-sized card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or approximately five DVD-quality movies.Samsung said its new 8GB microSD card has a read speed of 16 Megabytes (MBs) per second and a write speed of 6 MB/s, well exceeding the Speed Class 4 SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) standard which requires a data write speed of 4MB/s. This is also much faster than the SD Speed Class 2 designation...

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Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n Gear Coming Soon

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2.0 products are expected to reach store shelves soon, as the Wi-Fi Alliance certification program nears its late June launch. These products will bear a new logo to show that they have been tested for industry-wide interoperability, the very latest security protection, and backward compatibility with previous generations of Wi-Fi gear.The Wi-Fi Alliance also announced the products and reference designs that will comprise...

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Telefónica Reaches 149 Million Mobile, 8.5 Million Broadband Customers

Telefónica reported Q1 revenues of EUR 13.747 billion, a 15% rise in revenue year-over-year, attributed to strong growth in Spain and Latin American operations. Net profit for Q1 was EUR 1.257 billion, up 7%.The company's total access count rose 11.4% to 206 million, including 148.9 mobile customers and 8.5 million broadband customers. Telefónica España contributed 44.8 million lines to the total access count, while Telefónica contributed 117 million...

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Deutsche Telekom Readies "Grenzenlos Zuhause" Campaign

Deutsche Telekom will launch a marketing campaign on May 19 with the aim of simplifying its brand identity. The aim is to be the leading provider in Germany with the new "one company" identity.In Germany, Deutsche Telekom offers its customers in the consumer market services predominantly under the two brands T-Home and T-Mobile. T-Home will offer services for the home and T-Mobile for on the move. T-Systems is the brand for business customers. Deutsche Telekom will remain the corporate brand in terms of corporate identity and corporate design.The...

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MTC Namibia Powers Cell Site with Wind/Solar Power

MTC Namibia has built a GSM cell site powered by wind and solar energy generation. The project was conducted by Motorola and the GSM Association. Once installed, the cost of power is almost zero, and wind and solar powered cell sites require minimal maintenance unlike a diesel driven generator which generally requires, at a minimum, a monthly visit for refueling. http://www.motorola.com/reach/windandsolartr...

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RealNetworks Acquires Sony NetServices for Mobile Music Service

RealNetworks has acquired Sony NetServices, which provides mobile operators with an end-to-end white label digital music service available today in eight European countries. RealNetworks said this acquisition is part of its strategy to extend its presence in digital entertainment delivery on the mobile platform. The deal follows RealNetworks' recent acquisition of mobile entertainment leader WiderThan. With the acquisition of Sony NetServices, RealNetworks now has 12 music on demand customers with over 196 million mobile subscribers in 11 countries....

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XO Surpasses 10,000 Business VoIP Customers

XO Communications announced that its XOptions Flex VoIP service now supports more than 10,000 business customers in more than fifty-five major metropolitan markets across the United States. The service was launched two years ago. "Nearly seven years ago XO launched the industry's first flat-rate and integrated communications packages combining voice, data and web hosting services on a single bill," said Tom Cady, president of XO Business Services. "Today, XO continues its long record of service innovation and industry leadership with XOptions...

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Motorola Introduces MOTOwi4 Indoor Solution

Motorola is expanding its MOTOwi4 portfolio with a new wi4 Indoor solution that allows for the delivery and management of wireless broadband connectivity across all of the necessary IP access technologies. Products in the Enterprise WLAN portfolio include thin, full-function and mesh access points, wireless switches and radio frequency (RF) switches that can manage up to 3,000 access points. In addition to Wi-Fi hardware, Enterprise WLAN offers mobility, network management, and wireless network security, including wireless intrusion protection....

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Stockholm's Globe Arena Installs Wireless Mesh from Firetide

Stockholm's Globe Arena, which seats 16,000 spectators and is known as the world's largest spherical building, has installed a multi-service, wireless mesh network from Firetide to relay lighting control data instantly to 670 DMX-controlled multi-color-capable lighting assemblies. Fifteen Firetide nodes were used to provide a wireless network infrastructure for the entire facility. Firetide's HotView Pro software provides management and diagnostics for the network. NoWire, Firetide's distributor in the Nordic region, system integrators Stockholm...

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TI Offers "Telinnovation" Echo Canceller Software Across DSPs

Texas Instruments (TI) has deployed its "Telinnovation" echo canceller software across several digital signal processor (DSP) platforms including the carrier infrastructure optimized TNETV3020, as well as TMS320C64x- and TMS320C64x+-based devices. TI said its Telinnovation echo canceller, which has grown to become the most widely-deployed echo canceller solution since its introduction over 20 years ago, is currently delivering over 1 billion calls per day.The echo canceller is G.168-2004 compliant and has been certified for use across carrier,...

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